unobservant

Example Sentences

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People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

Motoya’s book beguiles with its reversals: the bodybuilder’s husband may be unobservant to the point of eeriness, but, as it turns out, she is the shape-shifter, the trickster.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

His open-ended questions assess local ecological knowledge, and the test functions as a wake-up call for the unobservant.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2015

The editors . . . are responsible as well, for being too indolent, timid or unobservant, if the reviewers are right.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2011

“I’m pretty unobservant and it only took me about a minute.”

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling